Training User Patterns

Under Training, select Use built-in and user
patterns or Use only user patterns.

Select the Read with training option.

Click the Pattern Editor… button.Note: Pattern training is not supported for Asian
languages.

In the Pattern Editor dialog box, click
New…

In the Create Pattern dialog box, type in a name for
your new pattern and click OK.

Close the Pattern Editor and the Options
dialog boxes by clicking the OK button in each.

On the toolbar at the top of the Image window, click
Read.
Now if ABBYY FineReader encounters an unknown character, this
character will be displayed in a Pattern Training dialog box.

Teach the program to read new characters and
ligatures.

A ligature is a combination of two or three characters
that are "glued together" (for example, fi, fl, ffi, etc.) and are
difficult for the program to separate. In fact, better results can
be obtained by treating them as single compound characters.

Note: Words printed in bold or italic type in your text
or words in superscript/subscript may be retained in the recognized
text by selecting the corresponding options under
Effects.

To go back to a previously trained character, click the
Back button. The frame will jump to its previous location
and the latest trained "character image - keyboard character"
correspondence will be removed from the pattern. The Back
button navigates between characters of one word and will not
navigate between words.

Important!

You can only train ABBYY FineReader to read the characters
included in the alphabet of the recognition language. To train the
program to read characters that cannot be entered from the
keyboard, use a combination of two characters to denote these
non-existent characters or copy the desired character from the
Insert Character dialog box (click to open the dialog box).

Each pattern may contain up to 1,000 new
characters. However, avoid creating too many ligatures, as
this may adversely affect OCR quality.